Parties of children could be formed to visit local jails and prisons, where the teachers could hold up mirrors to them of young men, husbands and fathers being torn from their loved ones and thrown into prison; of the long hours of bitter anguish spent in solitary cells year after year. Make this penal sacrifice of suffering mortals count for something more than mere restraint and punishment of crime. Make it the price paid in advance for the saving of youths in the future. The pupils should be made to write essays on the subject of temptations met and resisted, to discuss the traits of one another frankly, to commend the good and discourage the vicious among their number; thus imbuing the whole class with a feeling in common of protective fellowship. It is the right of every child to be safeguarded in a way that it may not, through ignorance or lack of proper guidance and warning, be doomed to spend its life behind prison bars. It will surely be an agreeable and noble task for our teachers to so safeguard the child. In this way, it may fall to the lot of one of them to prevent that poor Slav boy from ending his days with another rope about his neck. Who knows? THE MARYLAND PENITENTIARY The annual report of the Maryland Penitentiary for the year 1913, which has recently been issued, must be of particular interest to all those that have followed the fortunes of that penitentiary during the past years. The report is full of meat. But most interesting perhaps, is the list of reforms instituted during the year, as given on page 14. Night schools have been established for both male and female illiterates. The lock-step has been abolished. The uniforms of the male prisoners have been changed from stripes to dark grey, and those of the female prisoners from blue check to dark grey. China dishes and aluminum spoons are used instead of tinware. The male inmates make a detour of the grounds in going to dining room and shops, and are permitted to exercise in the open air for three-quarters of an hour on Sundays. They march two abreast, and each inmate is allowed to converse with his companion. The female prisoners are allowed to exercise in the yard three times a day on week days, and on Sundays for about two hours.